Re: Lookin' for the OED

In a message dated 07/05/2002 07.02.26 AM, the over-worked, over-loaded
Christophe.Grandsire@FREE.FR quotes _moi_ and writes:

>En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:
>
>><John Cowan> >AFAIK no one has ever taken the trouble to transcribe it.
>
>>     ::cheeky grin... pushes Christophe forward::
>
>Do you want my death?! :))
    No No... I wouldn't want that at all. Take my mischievious acting up as a
compliment on your computer prowess and work ethic.

HUMOUR: I once saw a t-shirt that said: "My Confucian Work Ethic Kicks Your
Puritan Work Ethic's Ass." And it had picture of Ho Chi Minh and
Barbarella/Jane Fonda in the American Gothic pose.
    Of course this was in the People's Republic of Berkeley, California.
    (Tho' funny in an off-coloured fashion, it does make the rather
disturbing equation of "Asian-ness = Communistic" ... also with the
Barbarella image next to the Fu Manchu-like image of Ho Chi Minh, all the
cultural "bogeymen" of "Yellow Peril", "White Slavery" and race-mixing also
come flooding to mind...)

OBCONLANG/CULTURE:  How do peeps' describe work and how do peeps' explain
their concultures' "work ethic" or similar? Are there opposing or contrasting
views on work ethics?

Hanuman Zhang
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